Bridge CS3 no longer previews CR2 Canon

Currently previews of canon raw photos loaded in Bridge do not always show the photo, only the generic icon "CR2", and won't show the photo when slidestrip icon is selected either. It worked on previous downloads, but not currently. I can see the photos OK in Preview, PS CS3, and Iview, so it's only Bridge that has the problem. Tried purging the cache as Ramon suggests, to no avail.
Current equipment: iMac Intel, Mac OS 10.5.5, Camera Raw 4.6, Bridge CS3 2.1.1.9, Canon 40D.
Thanks,
Jonathan

I had a similar problem. I tried everything here and it still did not work. So I went back to v 4.3.1. After going back to 4.3.1, I decided to see if I installed v4.6 manually, would it work. It did.
So if you can only see the raw icon and not the raw images in Bridge, and you have the new Plug-in v 4.6 installed, this is what you do.
1 - Close Bridge (and Photoshop)
2 - Download the previous Plug-in v 4.3.1 if you do not still have it.
3 - Go to Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug ins/CS3/File Formats in your HD (NOT the Library in the users folder)
4 - Place the Plug-in 4.3.1 in the File Formats folder
5 - Open Bridge and see that the raw images are images and not icons
6 - Close Bridge (and Photoshop)
7 - Go back to Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug ins/CS3/File Formats this time installing Plug-in v 4.6.
Now I made a new folder in the File Formats folder that I called OldPlugins and placed plug-in v4.3.1 in it and I have not had any problems with it. If this does not work for you (like the person above) put the OldPlugin somewhere else.
8 - Open Bridge and the raw images should be raw images and not icons.
I trust this will work for you also.
Cheers!
gar

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